ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the film Another Day directed by Leslie P. Thatcher. Thatcher's Another Day is an outstanding and prize-winning example of an amateur city symphony. A short experimental documentary about Thatcher's hometown, Toronto, the film was named one of the "Ten Best" amateur films of 1934 by the editorial staff of the Amateur Cinema League's official journal, Movie Makers. Thatcher's film does indeed follow daily activities on a Saturday in chronological order, but it also applies the modernist, city-symphony fragmentation of everyday events. Historian Lewis Jacobs explicitly presented Another Day as a city symphony inspired by Dziga Vertov, but its more immediate inspiration was fellow Torontonian Gordon Sparling's ode to Montreal, Rhapsody in Two Languages, which was released earlier that same year (1934).
